Farcaster

The value of an FID is in the social graph—both stated (following) and revealed (activity). Profile is secondary.

There is minimal (no?) value in the onchain primitive absent the above.

This is why digital identity is always emergent from apps with utility.

If you spend a lot of time using an app / platform / OS, it starts to become your identity.

Building an identity layer is the wrong order of operations. You earn the right to be an identity layer by time spent, usage, people building on it, etc.

Seems like a strong case for why no other client could ever hope to compete with Warpcast in the long run.

Join the movement, create a better everything, all we need to do is keep building. /justbuild /talkstory $units $justbuild $moxie

The Farcaster identity lives outside of Warpcast.

True, but by your reasoning the value of it is retained in the Warpcast application via time spent, usage, people building on it, etc.

Sure, and I appreciate that in every way shape and form. The graph is a superior construct for that reason. Full stop. 

However, there are norms that are being instilled into the utilization of FC via WC through "time spent" and unique features like channels, which don't reside in the protocol. As apps populate WC with greater velocity that becomes even more true, so I think your central thesis is sound. 

So, sure its phone number, but the house and everything in it will be WC.

It's more nuanced here, since the identity on Farcaster is not tightly coupled to the client / server (contrast to email). It lives at the network live, like a phone number.